How to format your references using the Case Studies in Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Case Studies in Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

D.S. Greenberg, A two-year plan for US science, Nature. 467 (2010) 781–782.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R.H. Crompton, T.C. Pataky, Anthropology. Stepping out, Science. 323 (2009) 1174–1175.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R.S. Sansom, S.E. Gabbott, M.A. Purnell, Non-random decay of chordate characters causes bias in fossil interpretation, Nature. 463 (2010) 797–800.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.M. Monteiro, A.R. Pereira, N.T. Reichmann, B.M. Saraiva, P.B. Fernandes, H. Veiga, A.C. Tavares, M. Santos, M.T. Ferreira, V. Macário, M.S. VanNieuwenhze, S.R. Filipe, M.G. Pinho, Peptidoglycan synthesis drives an FtsZ-treadmilling-independent step of cytokinesis, Nature. 554 (2018) 528–532.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

C.J. Taylor, P.C. Young, A. Chotai, True Digital Control, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

F. Jovane, The ManuFuture Road: Towards Competitive and Sustainable High-Adding-Value Manufacturing, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M.S. Christofferson, “The Best Help I Could Find to Understand Our Present”: François Furet’s Antirevolutionary Reading of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, in: S.W. Sawyer, I. Stewart (Eds.), In Search of the Liberal Moment: Democracy, Anti-Totalitarianism, and Intellectual Politics in France since 1950, Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, 2016: pp. 85–109.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Case Studies in Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, This Is What Climate Change Deniers Sound Like To Normal People, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-climate-change-deniers-sound-normal-people/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Head Start: Better Data and Processes Needed to Monitor Underenrollment, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2003.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Staal, The Relationships Among Sleep Quality, Frailty, and Falls in Older Adults Residing in the Community, Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, 2017.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

S.K. (nyt), World Briefing | Europe: Russia: A Call For More Money To Fight Aids, New York Times. (2003) A6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Case Studies in Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing
ISSN (print)	2351-9886
Scope